Editing Unio Trium Nationum (section)

{{Short description|1437 Transylvanian mutual aid pact}}
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'''Unio Trium Nationum''' ([[Latin]] for "Union of the Three Nations") was a pact of mutual aid codified in 1437 by three [[Estates of the realm|Estates]] of [[Voivodeship of Transylvania|Transylvania]]: the (largely [[Hungarians|Hungarian]]) [[nobility]], the [[Transylvanian Saxons|Saxon]] ([[German people|German]]) patrician class (represented by the [[Transylvanian Saxon University]]),<ref>{{cite book|author1=Mircea Dogaru|author2=Mihail Zahariade|title=History of the Romanians: From the origins to the modern age, Volume 1 of History of the Romanians, History of the Romanians|publisher=[[Amco Press]]|year=1996|page=148|isbn=9789739675598|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sYIsAQAAIAAJ&q=%22unio+trium+nationum%22+%22saxon+patricians%22}}</ref> and the free military [[Székelys]].<ref>{{cite book|author=László Fosztó|title=Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion Among Roma in a Transylvanian Village|publisher=[[LIT Verlag]]|year=2009|page=44|isbn=9783643101754|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8KO1F62FnsC&pg=PA44}}</ref>{{clarify|reason=These were the Estates in 1437, but what about the development until the abolition of the Union rules a full 400 years later? No change in the composition of the body of representatives?|date=July 2021}}
The union was directed against the whole of the peasantry, regardless of ethnicity, in response to the [[Transylvanian peasant revolt]].<ref name=Foszto2007>
László Fosztó: ''Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion among Roma in a Transylvanian Village'', Halle-Wittenberg, 2007 [https://books.google.com/books?id=V8KO1F62FnsC&pg=PA44]
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In this typical feudal estate parliament, the peasants (whether Hungarian, Saxon, Székely, or Romanian in origin) were not represented, and they did not benefit from its acts,<ref>{{cite book|author=Ştefan Pascu|title=A History of Transylvania|publisher=[[Dorset Press]]|year=1990|page=101|isbn=9780880295260|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYXZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22not+represented+and+did+not+benefit+from+their+acts%22}}</ref> as the commoners were not considered to be members of these feudal "nations".<ref>{{cite book|author=Lucian Leuștean|title=Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Southeastern Europe|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2014|page=132|isbn=9780823256068|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lu_nCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA132}}</ref>